Theme development

I am trying to create a new theme by editing the bluemarine theme. I may be going about this the wrong way, but I am trying to config Drupal to match a pre-defined layout. As such, I am doing most of the editing to the xtemplate.xtmpl file instead of just playing with the css file. (Default size/layout for left side column menu and also top header. Placing most of my edits in the <!-- BEGIN: logo --> portion of the template, and then wrapping the rest of the Drupal page in a div, and shifting that over x pixels to match the size of the column. That part works. The problem is that I am getting extra white space between the images I am using in the menu. It seems like there is extra padding set up or extra white space set up, I can't tell. But where the images are supposed to be touching, there is a few pixel gap. It just happens on the top/bottom of the image, not on the side. I have tried using tables, p's, br's, but it happens with all of them. I could force them all into place by assigning strict x,y coords but I would rather not. I have tried commenting out/changing all instances of padding, margins, etc that I can think but no luck. Am I just missing something obvious? The same code works fine out of Drupal so I assume it has to do with the Drupal css, but cannot find it in either the css files in misc, or the css file for the theme itself. Any help would be appreciated.

hi all..

hi all,

here is some code i hacked together to make it possible to show flickr images on http://www.varnelis.net

flickr's javascript badge left me wanting and i could never figure out the flickr modules... but i found a site ( http://prwdot.org/archives/002468.html ) that had a php routine using the magpierss routines (see below...these could be interesting!) ready to go, even if it wasn't for drupal.

i made some changes since I wanted my images to be of a specific size. you can go in and play with either the given flickr sizes (see http://digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000650052735/) for the proper codes. i've set the image width to 300 in the line that contains the preg_replace code and eliminated any height constraint.

no warranties on this, i'm a php hack, not a coder. and if anybody has any better ideas for cleaning up the img

the code works equally well in a block and in a page (e. g. http://www.varnelis.net/flickr)

After uploading phptemplate to the themes/engines directory I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: system_listing() in /home/.ingham/adrianamonica/adrianamonica.us/drupal/themes/engines/phptemplate/phptemplate.engine on line 14

I have also uploaded some phptemplate themes to my themes directory and they do not show up.
(I can only see the themes administer area before uploading phptemplate)

Hi there,

Brand-new user, PHP newbie. I'm using an installation of Drupal shared with a number of others & must make any design changes via my own specialized theme within my own site folder.

http://drupal.org/phptemplate